Woman spends 7 hours wedged between boulders after trying to retrieve phone she dropped
CBSN
An ambulance service in Australia had to come to the rescue of a woman who "got herself in a spot of bother earlier this month" when she became wedged between two boulders while trying to recover her dropped cell phone. Matilda Campbell slipped into a 10-foot-deep crevice in the region's Hunter Valley and spent about seven hours stuck between the massive rocks before rescuers finally freed her with just cuts and scrapes, officials said.
The New South Wales Ambulance service shared photos and details of the rescue operation on Monday, explaining that Campbell's friends dialed the emergency services "after unsuccessful attempts to free her" as she was suspended "hanging by her feet upside down for over an hour."
A specialist rescue paramedic "worked with a multidisciplinary team to remove several heavy boulders to create a safe access point" to the trapped woman and then the team built a wooden frame "to ensure stability while rescuers worked."
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